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Abstract
This study was conducted to evaluate the forensic aspects of the phenomenon of the violence against females from data retrieved from achieves of cases admitted to Beni Suef medicolegal area from January 2010 to December 2014. The collected data include: age, residence, place of violence exposure, (either domestic violence, community violence or state violence), according to type of violence (physical violence or sexual violence), end result of violence, different sites of injuries, multiplicity of types of injuries, different complications, cause of death of the case, Motive for violence infliction, Relation of perpetrators to victims either intimate or non intimate, and Gender of perpetrator.
The cases were grouped according to their ages into 8groups. It was found that the majority of the victims were in the age group between 20-30 years (in 133 cases represents 30.1% of total cases).
As regard the residence of the victim, 224 cases were living in rural area cases and 218 cases were living in urban area.
Most common place of violence exposure was in outdoor context (71.3% of cases) rather than cases exposed to domestic violence (28.7% of cases).
Blunt injury was the most common form of the physical violence (161 cases followed by firearm injuries (127 cases), cut wounds (29 cases), thermal injuries (18 cases), and finally stab injuries (in 10 cases).
63 cases were examined as a victims of sexual violence the most common type of which are victims of rape (26 cases), while the least common was those of allegation of buggery (15 cases) and there were 22 cases examined for sexual harassment.
26 cases were examined for rape (2 cases were rape homicide, 24 cases with positive signs of rape).
Total number of cases was 442 cases with 73 cases end with mortality of the case and 369 cases end with non fatal injury.
According to the relation between age groups and mortality, it was obvious that mortality increases with extremely of age reaching 45.9% mortality in the age group between 1-10 years and 50% mortality in the age group between 70-80 years.
Multiple injuries was the most prevalent site of injury followed by upper limb (65 cases), and head injury (59 cases), lower limb (45 cases), abdominal injury (41 cases) and finally the least incidence was injury of the back.
Fire arm injuries was the leading cause of death (17 cases) followed by Head injury (14 cases), violent asphyxia (11 cases), stab wound to chest and/or abdomen (7 cases), thermal injury and Carbamate toxicity (5 cases), finally rape homicide by heavy blunt object (2 cases).
The perpetrators were commonly found to be intimate partner to the victim (in 291 cases represents 65.8% of cases) and mostly known persons to the victim and/or family rather than to be unknown to the victim (in 151 cases represents 34.2% of cases). It was obvious that perpetrator of rape was known to the victim (in 13 cases) rather than to be stranger (in 13 cases).
Regarding gender of perpetrator, were commonly found that male violence against female occur in majority of cases (400 cases), But there is female violence against female showed in (42 cases).